Agesilaus II Quotes
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According to my royalty statements, 'The Green Progression' sold 392 copies in hardcover.
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Every one suspects himself of at least one of the cardinal virtues.
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Ninoy Aquino was a friend; I knew his faults, which were outweighed by his virtues.
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Mohd Rafi saab and I fought over royalty rights. At a meeting attended by prominent singers and musicians, he stood up and said, 'Main aaj se Lata ke saath nahin gaoonga'. I retorted, 'Rafi saab, ek minute. Aap nahin gaayenge mere saath yeh galat baat hai. Main aapke saath nahin gaoongee'. I stormed out and called all my composers there and then and informed them to rope in another singer if it was a duet with Rafi saab.
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Happiness consists of being able to tell the truth without hurting anyone.
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The greatest virtues are those which are most useful to other persons.
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Greatness of Soul seems therefore to be as it were a crowning ornament of the virtues; it enhances their greatness, and it cannot exist without them. Hence it is hard to be truly great-souled, for greatness of soul is impossible without moral nobility.
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Courage is the mother of all virtues because without it, you cannot consistently perform the others.
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Neither by nature, then, nor contrary to nature do the virtues arise in us; rather we are adapted by nature to receive them, and are made perfect by habit.
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I say that is wine," Brett held up her glass. "We ought to toast something. 'Here's to royalty.'" "This wine is too good for toast-drinking, my dear. you don't want to mix emotions up with a wine like that. you lose the taste." Brett's glass was empty.
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I am monarch of all I survey, My right there is none to dispute, From the centre all round to the sea, I am lord of the fowl and the brute.
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One is punished best for one's virtues.
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It is a distinction to have many virtues, but a hard lot.
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As we speak of poetical beauty, so ought we to speak of mathematical beauty and medical beauty. But we do not do so; and that reason is that we know well what is the object of mathematics, and that it consists in proofs, and what is the object of medicine, and that it consists in healing. But we do not know in what grace consists, which is the object of poetry.
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Our mind is capable of passing beyond the dividing line we have drawn for it. Beyond the pairs of opposites of which the world consists, other, new insights begin.
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Simple ignorance has in its time been complimented by the names of most of the vices, and of all the virtues.
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The greatest minds are capable of the greatest vices as well as of the greatest virtues.
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True peace consists in not separating ourselves from the will of God.
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Happiness is not fame or riches or heroic virtues, but a state that will inspire posterity to think in reflecting upon our life, that it was the life they would wish to live.
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Bob Altman got nothing from the TV series 'M*A*S*H,' and the royalties for the theme song went to his oldest son, Michael, who wrote it as a 15-year-old poet!
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If your job is to leaven ordinary lives with elevating spectacle, be elevating or be gone.
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Aristocracy and exclusiveness tend to final overthrow, in language as in politics.
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Royalty consists not in vain pomp, but in great virtues.
